I have stories in my head ( broad strokes). I can vividly imagine narrative moments in media res that I would love to do justice to by filling out the before and after. I create personalities in my head that I talk to and could transcribe. I know what themes and motifs I would like to touch... but every time I sit down to actually try and drag these imaginings into reality my mind goes blank. I sit, I struggle, I am at a crossroad amidst a blank void.

How do I learn how to give structure to this impulse to create fiction? Where do I learn how to create a program or methodology that allows me to take these abstract yearnings and give them a concrete form?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening.

  • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    "Let it be the worst".... Never before have such words had such a powerfully positive effect. My filthy monkey fingers shall type. My brain of electric gelatin shall ponder. You are correct, between the realization and the actualization something is lost, but is it not in that process that true value is found? How can something be lost if it was never there to begin with? It is better to be fail at bringing forth meaning than to never attempt a summoning.

    Thank you.